Rational Software Architect Design Manager

IBM® Rational® Software Architect Design Manager is a collaborative software design and development platform built on Jazz™ technology. IBM Jazz provides an open, extensible architecture that enables teams to collaborate and manage design information across the application development lifecycle. With Rational Software Architect Design Manager, global teams can store, share and manage designs and models in a central location, so they can closely collaborate with stakeholders to successfully meet requirements. Rational Software Architect Design Manager helps improve the quality, time and agility of software planning, design and delivery.

A central design hub stores all designs and makes them searchable and accessible to global extended teams.

An intuitive web client

The web client provides easy access to design information for extended stakeholders, such as customers or contractors, to facilitate team collaboration.

Stakeholders can use a web browser to review and make comments on the actual designs so the architect or systems engineer can collect the feedback without generating a separate artifact for everyone to review.

Customizable tools and dashboards

Automate design reviews with stakeholders to facilitate communication of requirements.

Create reviews with team members so they can view model resources, provide comments and mark their review as complete.

Diagram markups graphically so they can be viewed from the web or desktop clients.

Automated reports and documents

Enhance impact analysis and reporting using Open Source Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) linkage to other software development lifecycle artifacts.

Deliver up-to-date status and metrics in reports for better communication between teams and stakeholders.

A flexible, extensible architecture

Create snapshots so you can view an entire project at a given point in time.

Import models from another repository to a Jazz repository, and schedule the transfer so model content is updated automatically on the design management server.

Provide team members with role-based versions—design manager or design reviewer—that enable the relevant capabilities for their use.

The design manager role is designed for team members who are using IBM Rational Software Architect to create and modify designs, and need to update those designs on the design management server, create snapshots and conduct design reviews.

The design reviewer role is for stakeholders who need to collaborate, review and comment on designs, but do not create or modify the designs directly.

For your convenience, the tabs below identify the supported releases of Rational Software Architect Design Manager
from which you can select detailed system requirement reports for different contexts (by Operating System, by component). Note that clicking a link will always generate a new, up-to-date report.

Watch this demo to see how you can use Rational Software Architect to sketch designs at a higher level without having to specify semantic details. Designs can easily be converted to UML elements or text and remain linked to the original sketch.